Dear Santa (2024)

It’s not fun to mock the afflicted, but this film looks to see what would happen if a child misspelled Santa because of dyslexia. It’s essentially Faust in disguise. This time goodness wins through.

A Christmas Karen (2024)

If I’m going to be honest, this film bothered me, until I saw Karen’s resemblance to Scrooge. That’s when the title finally made sense. So this is one Dickens of a storyline brought completely up to the present time. The ‘ghosts’ had very clever gimmicks to allow Karen glimpses into the past, present and future. Her metamorphosis was completely understandable for a modern miser. It was worth it all.

Merry (belated) Christmas, everyone.